Please show how you flat earth model explains lunar phases especially the part where everybody that can see the the moon sees it almost exactly the same phase and shape.
With the moon only 5000 km above the earth, people in different locations should see quite different faces of the moon as in:
Where it would seem that if people in the USA see the full moon people in South America would see only a half moon and a quite different face.
But they do not - everyone sees the same phase and the same face! How can this be possible?
If my diagrams are inaccurate, I would be quite pleased to see accurate ones.
Quote from: iamcpc
We have discussed this at great length on the other forums. We came up with 2 answers.
I would say that if you "came up with 2 answers" then at least one must be and probably are both are wrong.
One plausible answer would have been far better than two unlikely ones.
Especially as the moon's being about 384,000 km away and the sun many times further explains what we see perfectly.
1. The moon is clearly being lit by two different sources. We have looked at hundreds of pictures of the moon and consistently we are able to see some sort of light bouncing off of (or being originated from) the dark side of the moon. If second source of light is the moon itself then the moon is self lit during a full moon.
The spectra of sunlight and moonlight are almost identical, as shown here in the graph on the right:
 A photograph taken by moonlight with an exposure time of fifty minutes. | | |
Since full moonlight is
roughly 1/360,000 as intense as bright daylight a very long exposure is needed.
The comparison graph shows that the spectrum of moonlight is a little "redder" than sunlight, simply because the moon is not white, but otherwise the spectra are very similar.
They have the same Fraunhofer lines, providing very strong evidence that they come from the same source - the sun.
2. During a full moon the moon is a MUCH higher altitude than the sun. During a new moon the moon is a MUCH lower altitude than the sun.
That is not acceptable because the apparent or angular sizes of the sun and moon only change slightly and the little change there is bears no relation to the phases of the moon!
It easy to see, even with the unaided eye, that a full moon can be either small or large - a "supermoon".
The only feasible explanation I can see for both observers seeing the same face is for the moon to be a great distance from the earth.
The simple fact that the moon
looks to the eye to have exactly the same phase for all observers means that the moon must be many times the 6000 miles (or 10,000 km) distance between the observers in my diagram in that quoted post.